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"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the
grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun." Bishop Hall
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Welcome to another edition of Dead End.
Three of the individuals who we bid farewell to this week
are famous in their own right, but also have family members
who have been in the spotlight. First, we have Robert Earl
Jones, whose son is the well-known actor James Earl Jones.
Robert himself was a great stage and screen actor.
Next, we say goodbye to Mickey Hargitay, who was married to
the late actress Jayne Mansfield and is the father of Emmy
Award-winning actress Mariska Hargitay. Mickey was a
talented bodybuilder who won several Mr. Universe titles.
And third, we remember the sister of President Kennedy,
Patricia Kennedy Lawford. She was married to actor Peter
Lawford and strongly supported her brother's campaigns.
Also of note this week is the passing of 19-year-old teen
actor Pablo Santos, who was killed in a plane crash. Santos
starred in The WB series Greetings from Tucson during the
2002-2003 season.
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ROBERT EARL JONES, ACTOR, DEAD AT 96
Robert Earl Jones, the father of actor James Earl Jones and
himself a stage and screen actor, has died in New Jersey at
age 96. Jones died Sept. 7 in Englewood, N.J., of natural
causes, The New York Times reported. Jones was a boxer in
the 1930s, fighting under the name Battling Bill Stovall,
later becoming a sparring partner for Joe Louis before he
moved to New York and found his way into acting. He made
his Broadway debut in 1945 in "The Hasty Heart." Jones also
did his turn on the silver screen, his best known role
being Luther Coleman, Robert Redford's mentor in the 1973
film "The Sting." He also appeared in "The Cotton Club" and
"Witness." James Earl Jones appeared with his father in
several Off Broadway productions, including "Moon on a
Rainbow Shawl" in 1962. In addition to James Earl, another
son, Matthew Earl Jones and a grandchild survive him.
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MICKEY HARGITAY, BODYBUILDER AND ACTOR, DEAD AT 80
Mickey Hargitay, husband of the late actress Jayne Mansfield
and father of Emmy Award-winning actress Mariska Hargitay,
has died in Los Angeles at age 80. The bodybuilder and some-
time actor who won a string of Mr. Universe titles in the
1950s died Thursday, a family spokesman told Monday's Los
Angeles Times. No further details were given. Hargitay, a
native of Hungary, traveled around the United States as part
of Mae West's live revue in the 1950s, the newspaper said.
Hargitay and Mansfield married in 1958 and divorced in 1964,
but not before appearing together in the 1960 film "The
Loves of Hercules," a fantasy-adventure movie produced by
Italian filmmakers. He raised the couple's three children
after Mansfield's June 1967 death in a car crash. Hargitay
had a daughter Tina from his first marriage and three
children with Mansfield -- Mickey Jr., Zolton, the child
born after the filming of "Hercules" and Mariska, the star
of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
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PATRICIA KENNEDY LAWFORD, JFK'S SISTER, DEAD AT 82
Patricia Kennedy Lawford, the sister of President Kennedy,
has died of complications from pneumonia. She was 82.
Lawford bonded Hollywood and politics with her marriage to
actor Peter Lawford. She was the sixth child among Rose and
Joseph Kennedy's nine children. Lawford supported her
brother's political campaigns, but was inspired by her
father's career in the movie industry. She worked as an
assistant in NBC's New York production department and later
worked as an assistant for Kate Smith's radio program, and
for Father Peyton's Family Theater and Family Rosary Crusade.
After her divorce from Peter Lawford, she became a supporter
of New York City's art scene. She founded the National
Committee for the Literary Arts and worked with the National
Center on Addiction and the Kennedy Library. Lawford is
survived by her son, Christopher Lawford; her brother Sen.
Edward Kennedy; daughters Sydney, Victoria and Robin; 10
grandchildren; and sisters Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Jean
Kennedy Smith.
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PABLO SANTOS, TEEN ACTOR, DEAD AT 19
"Greetings from Tuscon" star Pablo Santos was killed when a
plane carrying him and six friends to Acapulco crashed in
Toluca, Mexico. The 19-year-old who starred in The WB series
during the 2002-2003 season died in the Friday crash and his
friend, Martel Fernandez, died a day later, Zap2it.com
reported. Five others along with the pilot were hospitalized.
The small plane owned by Santos' father went down Friday
during an emergency landing in Toluca, about 35 miles west
of Mexico City. Mexican aviation officials were investigat-
ing the cause of the crash. One of the survivors told the
newspaper, El Norte, the plane was designed to carry only
six passengers but the teenagers convinced the pilot to let
one more aboard, Zap2it.com said. Santos, who moved with his
family from Mexico to Los Angeles at age 12, appeared in
feature films as well as episodes of TV's "Law & Order,"
"Boston Public" and "American Family."
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Notable deaths this week in history...
In 1947, the three-time Mayor of New York, Fiorello H. La
Guardia, died after being in a coma. He was 64 years old.
In 1973, Jim Croce, a highly successful musician with hits
like Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, and I'll Have To Say I Love You
In A Song, died in a plane crash en route to Texas.
In 1980, Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist whose study of
child development has often been compared to Freud's work,
died at age 84.
In 1999, stage and film actor George C. Scott, best known
for his roles in Patton and Dr. Strangelove, died at the
age of 72.
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